Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-09-02
NEWS SUMMARY.

Judge Samuel Hill of the supreme court
of Georgia, is dead.
Hon. George Gardner OF the supreme
court of Chicago, is dead.
The loss on the rice crop of South Car
olina will exceed 100000
Senator sherman has returned from his
trip through the Canadian northwest.
The bone OF an extinct rnce of giants
have been unearthed in Cincinnati
Pension warrants amounting TO sl5g5L
600 were issued in one day recently.
The 18th reunion OF the army OF West
Virginia was held in Wheeling Aug. "a.
! -Four Findlanders were drowned at Con.
( nor's Point on the Wisconsin shore, the
other day.
J The Knights Of Labor of Mas ,achusetts
will meet in Boston, September TO- and
nominate full state ticket.
Hankton has been selected as the see of
the South Dakota Catholic church. a
$-OQCO) cathedral will be built at once
The Indian investigating committee
proposes to find out what is the matter
with the belligerent Colorow the Ute chief
1t is rumored that Hon. q. V. y. Lathrop
of Detroit minister TO Russia, contem
plates rssigning. He is on his way home.
Rear Admiral Craven of the United
States navy (retired) died at the Charles
ton, Mass, navy yard few days ago,
aged ~.
The James hotel OF Tenton, Texas,
burned the other day, and Col. a. j.
Hitchcock a Texas veteran OF 1881, persisted
in the flames.
Gen. John c. Black, commissioner of
pensions, is seriously i'll with inhanma
tory rheumatism at the residence a a
friend in Wiers, y. II.
a. j. Latimer is suing the Illinois Cen
trial road at Clinton, H., for putting HIS
daughter OFF a train because she didn 8
have seven cents for her fare
Alex. McCue Of New York, the present
solicitor Of the treasury, has been APP
pointed commissioner of fish aud fisheries,
TO succeed the late Prof. Baird.
Government troops have succeeded in
quelling the Indian war in Colorado. One
white man and four indians were killed in
the engagement the other day.
soldiers monument is TO he unveiled
at Reading. Pa, Sept. 10. Ex-Goy. Hoyt
will deliver the oratio'B, and Gen. Sher-
man and Gen. Sheridan will he present.
{. II. Chaplain and James Ledwith
PAINTER employed on So Peters church
III Hartford, Conn, were instantly killed
the other day, the scaffo. ding giving way.
1t is announced that the To, edo, Peoria
* Western officials are refunding the
amount expended by the ercursio1ists
who ~ere in the awful Chatsworth wreck.
Col G.. G.. CROWS OF tia Second Iora
regiment, and late briga der general Of
the Kansas national guards. wss burned
in ba-n in Topeka, Kansas the other
day.
Mrs. Clsveland VIII be invited 60 revieE
the anuucl parade Of the New York fire
departments and present the Tags donated
10y the city Ia the l.remen. The two flags
cost Sl,'oo.
The international stove mo 1lders' union
has suddenly determined upon demand
ing an advance in wage. varying from 10
80 - per cent al. ove- the Ur;ted States
and Cadada.
Gen. Terry, appea ct to for aid against
the L te-, ADVISES the sivil authorities TO
give up their attempts and then. the mill
tnry VIII put he Indians back on their
reservations.
The postal ,elegraVH company have
agreed not 20 furnish bucket shops with
quotations hereafter and their wires
have been reinstated on tbs Chicago
board OF trade.
\ terrible accident occurred on che
Union Pacific near Denver the other day
The engineer Of the train was instantly
killed, and the fireman seriously, perhaps
fatally, injured.
About 400 stonemasoas of Pittsburgh
and Allegheny City. Pa have resolved 10
leave the knights Of labo, and join the in
ternational association of stonsmasoEs
and bricklayers.
The commander of tie nited States
cruisers in the Alaska service has been or
dered TO seize all vessels found in Behriug
sea, unless they are the property Of the
Alaska fur company.
The convict g Sc system Of Georgia will
havet 90. Gov. Gordon has signed the
official order 10 that effect. Shocking
stories are told OF the abuse of the con
victs by the contractors.
Mrs. Nancy Jackson Farvell, TIN. mother
Of L nited states Senator Charles Il. Far
well and John b. FarweiL died in Stirling
H., few days ago. Shs was cue of the
oldest pioneers Of Illinois.
The contract for the construction Of
building for the United States peniten-
tiary at Salt Lake City has been awarded
to the Pauly mil building and manufac-
turing company OF st. Louis at $4,000.
Allen Rutherford, a well known attorney
of Washington, is in the tolls for receiv-
ing stolen pension records. Richard Bru
ner. a clerk in the pension Office, stole the
records for Rutherford, and he is also i'm
Jail.
Capt. Silas Bent Of 81. Louis, died at
Shelter Island, l.. J., afew days ago. Capt
Bent gradu sted at the Naval academy at
Annapolis, Md, in lN54, and served with
distinction in Perry's japanese expedi-
ton.
A big riot between whites and blacks
occurred in Decatur, Ga, the other day.
Two persons were killed and one mortally
wounded. The marshall Of the town was
shot while trying to arrest one of the
rioters.
III Io,oat paxys from, tho Ito Indian, =